Editing List of archaeologists (section)

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*[[Gaetano d'Ancora]] (1751–1816) Italian; Italy
*[[Albéric d'Auxy]] (1836–1914) Belgian; Belgium
*[[Bruno Dagens]] (1935–2023) French; Khmer and India
*[[Constantin Daicoviciu]] (1898–1973) Romanian; Romania
*[[Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe]] (1865–1937)Sri Lankan; epigraphist and archaeologist, Sri Lanka
*[[Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala]] (1900–1976) Sri Lankan; paleontologist, zoologist, director of the National Museum of Ceylon from 1961 to 1964
*[[George F. Dales]] (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
*[[Mary Dallas]] (1952–2023) Scottish-born Australian, Aboriginal cultural heritage management
*[[Ahmad Hasan Dani]] (1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
*[[Glyn Daniel]] (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
*[[Ken Dark]] (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
*[[Raymond Dart]] (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology:  [[Australopithecus africanus]]
*[[Timothy Darvill]] (1957–2024) British;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archaeology |first=Cotswold |date=2024-10-05 |title=Tim Darvill: 22 December 1957 - 5 October 2024 |url=https://cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/tim-darvill-1957-2024/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=Cotswold Archaeology |language=en-GB}}</ref>  Britain
*[[Raksha Dave]] (Born 1977) British; Field and Public Archaeologist, President of [[Council for British Archaeology]]
*[[Janet Davidson]] (born 1941) New Zealand; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
*[[Theodore M. Davis]] (1837–1915) American; Egypt
*[[William Boyd Dawkins]] (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
*[[Touraj Daryaee]] (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
*[[Janette Deacon]] (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management
*[[Hilary Deacon]] (1936–2010) South African; Africa, antiquity of man
*[[Corinne Debaine-Francfort]] (born 19??) French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China
*[[James Deetz]] (1930–2000) American; historical archaeology
*[[Warren DeBoer]] (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology, ceramics 
*[[James P. Delgado]] (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
*[[Arthur Demarest]] (fl. 2000 AD) American; Maya
*[[Robin Dennell]] (born 1947) British; prehistoric archaeologist
*[[Siran Upendra Deraniyagala]] (1942–2021) Sri Lankan; archaeologist and historian, Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001
*[[Donald Brian Doe]] (1920–2005) British; Arabia
*[[Louis Felicien de Saulcy]] (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
*[[Jules Desnoyers]] (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
*[[Rúaidhrí de Valera]] (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
*[[Dragotin Dežman]] (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marsh, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
*[[Harold L. Dibble]] (1951-2018) American; paleolithic lithics
*[[Adolphe Napoleon Didron]] (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
*[[Tom D. Dillehay]] (born 1947) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
*[[Kelly Dixon]] (born 1970) American; historical archaeology of the American West
*[[Brian Dobson (archaeologist)|Brian Dobson]] (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
*[[Dong Zuobin]] (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese; [[oracle bones]], [[Yinxu]]
*[[Gertrud Dorka]] (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
*[[Wilhelm Dörpfeld]] (1853–1940) German; Greece
*[[Trude Dothan]] (1922–2016) Austrian; Israel
*[[Claude Doumet-Serhal]] (born 1958) Lebanese; history and archaeology of Sidon
*[[Hans Dragendorff]] (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
*[[Penelope Dransart]] (born 19??) British?; South American anthropology
*[[Carol van Driel-Murray]] (born 1950) British; [[gender archaeology]], Roman archaeology, leather
*[[Angela von den Driesch]] (1934–2012) German; osteoarchaeology
*[[Hilary du Cros]] (born 1962) Australian; history of Australian archaeology<ref>''Much More than Stones & Bones: Australian Archaeology in the Late Twentieth Century'', Melbourne University Press. 2002 {{ISBN| 9780522850208}}</ref>
*[[Duan Qingbo]] (1964–2019) Chinese; [[Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor]]
*[[Roger Duff]] (1912–1978) New Zealander; New Zealand
*[[Katherine Dunbabin]] (born 1941) British?; classical archaeology, Roman art
*[[Robert Dunnell]] (1947–2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
*[[Louis Dupree (professor)|Louis Dupree]] (1925–1989) American; Afghanistan
*[[E. C. L. During Caspers]] (1934–1996) Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, Persian Gulf
*[[Robert H. Dyson]] (1927–2020) American; Near Eastern archaeology